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FREDERICK-NISHWITZ, Oli BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Letters Patent No. 73,827, dated January 28, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

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Bo it known that I, FREDERICK NrsHwlrz, of Brooklyn, in the count-y of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hari/esters, of which the following is a full, clear, and :met description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which makevpart of this specilication, and in which- 'Figure I represents a plan or top view of a harvester embracing my improvements, the detachable fra-me and connections being shown in blue lines.

`Ihgnre 2 is view` in elevation, oi' the same, as seen from the rear, the red lines showing the dumping-box partially tilted to discharge the gavcl.

Figure 3 is a vertical longitudinal section through the line :i: :u of tig. I, the position of the dumping-box when tilted being shown in red lines.

Figure 4 is a '.'icwlof the underside of the dumping-box. y

Figure 51's a view in detail ofthe rolling fulcrum of the dumping-box, with .its supporting-arm and guide.

Figure G is a view showing in detail the apparatus for tilting vthe dumping-box, the red lines showing the relative positions of the respective parts when tilted.

Figure 7 is a view of the inner post and reel-pulleys. and

Figure 8 is a view showing the mode of adjusting the supporting-arm, which carries the dumpingbox, in order to vary thc inclination of the latter.

It is the object of the invention herein claimed to readily convert a mowing-machine into an automatic or self-raking reaper, or vice rama; and to this end my improvement consists in combining, in an independent or detachable franie, a concave plat-form, a reel-rake, reel-supports, and a tilting dumping-box, so that they can be bodily applied to or removed from a mowing-machine, substantially as'hcreinafter described.

' In the accompanying drawings, which exemplify one convenient mode of carrying out the objects of my invention, my improvement is shown as applied to a two-wheeled, side-draught, fronti-cut mowing-machine, known as the Monitor Mower, and described in Letters Patent of the United States, numbered 46,488, granted to me, February 21, 1865, for improvement in harvesters.

In this instance, the main frame A is supported upon two main wheels B, which drive the cutters through proper gearing. A tongue, C, projects from the front of the frame, and a drivers seat, D, is mounted upon tho rear ofthe frame. A finger-beam, E, is hinged to the main frame in such manner as to permit it freely to conform to thc undnlations of thc ground over which it is drawn. A platform, F, is attached to a frame, consisting of two side pieces G G', upon which, in this instance, the reel-posts or standards H H', carrying a reel, I, are' mounted; the inner post H being mounted on the front of the frame, while the one on the grain-side is mounted upon the rear of the frame. This reel, I construct in the usual form, except that I malto the arms longer thanY they ordinarily are, so that they may reach forward into leaning grain; and I also suspend it proportionately liigli'or above the platform. A small grain-wheel supports the divider-end of the platform. The platform is provided with suitable dividers and grain-guards .I J at each end. An arin, K, attached to -and projectirigdiagonally behind this frame, supports a tilting dumping-box or platform, L. The platform'and frame can readily be' attached to or removed from the machine, being provided, for that purpose, with bifurcatcd lugs Z1, (lig. 3,) which slip on the finger-beam, and hold the frame securely. A hook and staple, j, or other suitable fastening, holds the divider-side ofthe frame secure, while the gearing-side is secured by a link-mdd, which is attached to the finger-beam in front, and hooks into the arm K, in the rear, (see iigl.) The inner rear corner of the platformframe is sustained by a chaiinjg, hooked into a standard, a, on theinner rear corner of the main frame. The dumping-box extends across the whole width of the platform, and extends somewhat beyond it on the` gearingside it is tilted by means of a link, n, pivoted' at one endto a hook, Z2, or other suitable connection, on its v inner front corner, and at its other end to a rocking-lever, N, pivoted upon the frame, and so constructed as to be operated either bythe hand or foot ofthe driver, (see iig. 6.) The reel is driven by a band, encircling a pulley on the main axle, and passing over pulleys 7i t on the reel-post before encircling the pulleyv on the rcel-shaft.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The combination, in the manner described, of the concave platform, the reel-rake, the reel-supports, and the tilting dumping-box, in an independent frame, so that they can be bodily attached to or removed from the machine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed mymame.

F. NISHWITZ. Witnesses HENRY LEE, (LH. Traiteur, 

